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I'm wary of labels such as "must read" - but a couple of books I'm glad I read:

"Dahlgren" by Samuel Delaney (and most everything else I've read by him as well).

"Earthsea" by Ursula LeGuin - and "Powers".

"Diamond Age" by Neal Stephenson.

"Holy Fire" by Bruce Sterling (I also enjoyed Islands in the Net, Zenith Angle and Schismatrix).

"Foundation" trilogy + prequel by Isaac Asimov.

"Brave New World", Aldous Huxley.

"Deepness in the Sky" / "Fire Upon the Deep" by Vernor Vinge.

"Something wicked this way comes" by Ray Bradbury.

And a couple of comics/visual novels:

"V for Vendetta" and "Watchmen" by Alan Moore (David Lloyd/ Tony Weare and Dave Gibbons / John Higgins).

Dave Sims: "Cerebus" (I don't think I've finished this yet, but the first ten volumes or so is.. Something else).

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Fair enough haha, thanks this is a great list, Foundation has always been something I wanted to read.

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I was pleasantly stunned when I recently re-read Foundation - after reading them in junior high school, some 25 years ago. I actually remembered most of the characters (note, there's pretty much a protagonist per chapter and the original trilogy spans... 10? thousand years).

On a different note - Hurki Murakami's non-fictional account of the Tokyo subway gas attack "Underground" is a harrowing, but rewarding read. And while tragic, "Norwegian Wood" is lighter, and also great (I actually think his best book among those I've read is "South of the Border" - in a similar sense that "The great Gatsby" is good (unsurprising as Murakami translated Scott Fitzgerald).

https://www.cupblog.org/2013/05/07/haruki-murakami-on-transl...